So you all heard the story last week, the one about the boy who drew a picture of himself on a crucifix – after being asked to draw a picture about Christmas, which, you know: the birth of Christ, the guy on the cross – and then his school went apeshit and sent him home [...]
Daycare Busted For Drugging Tots; Charges On Stupidity Pending
By on December 17, 2009 12 CommentsWow, this story almost made me drop my beloved coffee mug (don't worry, mommy's little enabler is just fine). A daycare in Cincinnati is being investigated for drugging kids in order to get them settled at nap time. There is an allegation that daycare employees put melatonin in candy which was then fed to some [...]
Bad Moms Wanna Know: Should Our Girls Shake Their Groove Thangs… Like THIS?
By on December 16, 2009 9 CommentsThe More Bad Moms Know: Revolver? I Hardly Know Her.
By on December 15, 2009 3 CommentsEver caught yourself alone with the kids and heard a scary noise? Ever been embarrassed during small talk at the playground because you refered to a rifle as a pistol or a shotgun as a hand gun? Ever heard another mom discussing bullets and only belatedly realizing that she was not talking about formatting documents [...]
2009: The Year Of The Bad Mom Spectacular Spectacular (Did Someone Say MONTAGE?)
By on December 10, 2009 Leave a CommentGisele Bundchen Had A Baby. Don’t Cry For Her, Cindy Crawford
By on December 9, 2009 2 CommentsSo I was reading the other day about how Cindy Crawford wants to be a MILF (look it up) and wondering what, exactly, I could say about that that wouldn't involve me shrieking incoherently about how holy mother-freaking UGH the whole MILF/yummy-mummy/hot-mama/cougar thing is, like, really, and was just kind of at a loss. And [...]
Bad Rants: Since When Did Bad Become The New ‘Eww This Makes Me Squeamish?’
By on December 7, 2009 38 CommentsBad, Schmad: Sometimes, Celebrities – And Gossip – And Celebrity Gossip – Just Suck
By on December 4, 2009 Leave a CommentBlind gossip items are one of my guilty pleasures. Call it schadenfreude, call it taking perverse pleasure in knowing that celebrities are as messed up as we think they are, call it a faint, desperate hope that one day, there'll be an item that reads something like 'Desperate Blond Actress with lifestyle website has secret [...]
This Just In: Overparenting Is The New Bad
By on November 22, 2009 Leave a CommentThe good news: the world seems to be to be finally waking up to the fact that overparenting – the hovering, fussing, toddler SAT-tutoring, oh-god-will-giving-my-kid-formula-bork-his-Harvard-chances mode of hyperparenting that, seriously, just sounds exhausting – is maybe, you know, not so good if we want to raise relaxed and happy children. The bad news? There's a [...]
Even We Have Standards: Two Things Not To Do With Stuff That Comes Out Of Your Nethers
By on November 18, 2009 4 CommentsI'm pretty sure that my body expelled some placenta with the births of both my children, but the only evidence of that is, in each case, the memory of someone yelling 'YOU'RE NOT DONE YET' after I'd shot each baby out of my lower parts. Because, no, I most certainly did not keep those placenta. [...]
Mamas, LET Your Babies Dress Up To Be Zombie Cowboys
By on October 31, 2009 Leave a CommentFrom the New York Times: "In some classrooms across the country, the interpretation of what is too scary — or offensive, gross or saddening — is now also leading to an abundance of caution and some prohibitions.In a school district in Illinois, students are being encouraged to dress up as historical characters or delicious food [...]
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